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Andrea Boragno was invited to speak about Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ to put forward Alcantara’s experience as an example of a sustainable company in 2015.

Boragno built on such collaborations to host periodic international symposiums designed to promote sustainability-oriented business management at the global level. The first two of these were the International Symposium on Sustainability in the Global Automotive Industry – Venice, and The Automotive Ecosystem On the Global Road To Sustainability: The Asian Perspective, organized in association with Venice International University. They were followed by the Third International Symposium on Sustainability: Sustainability and Corporate Value in October 2016, which was co-organized by Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha and Waseda University and Italy’s Venice International University and Alcantara S.p.A. in collaboration with Japan’s Society of Global Business.

Boragno is noted for initiating in 2009 Alcantara’s strong commitment to sustainability. Under Boragno’s leadership, the company carried out widespread stakeholder engagement activities through the involvement of international partners such as the World Bank/Connect4Climate, Venice International University, and the Earth Day Network.

Boragno took over as managing director of Alcantara in 2004 and has been the company’s chairman since 2006. He became a senior director at Toray Industries Inc. in June 2007. Boragno is also deputy chairman of the Fondazione Italia Giappone. (Italy-Japan Foundation).

In 1990, he joined Alcantara S.p.A., an Italian company belonging to Toray Industries Inc. In 1998, he was appointed CEO of TUA Inc., a New York-based American company resulting from Toray’s takeover of Springs Industries’ microfibre business.

Andrea Boragno (born 1950) is the chairman and CEO of Alcantara S.p.A., the Italian manufacturer of Alcantara, a covering material used in the design, fashion, consumer, automotive, aviation, marine and consumer electronics industries. The company is noted for being Italy’s first corporate entity to be certified as carbon neutral.